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What about let "Private groups" haven an option for them, so their members can submit an avatar and may or may not be approved buy the staff.

Or have and option on the group to turn on or off for uploading an personal avatar.

[Edited on 05.20.2012 3:08 PM PDT]

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Posted by: Jose291
What about let "Private groups" haven an option for them, so their members can submit an avatar and may or may not be approved buy the staff.

Or have and option on the group to turn on or off for uploading an personal avatar.
So I could have up to 25 different private forum avatars plus my public forum avatar? That would get a bit confusing if I chose to utilise it. :-)

  • 05.20.2012 4:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: Midnight Hawk2
And your computer. Makes my computer lag terribly bad.
that's more because greasemonkey is a massive bag of dicks

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Posted by: elmicker
Posted by: Midnight Hawk2
And your computer. Makes my computer lag terribly bad.
that's more because greasemonkey is a massive bag of dicks
Couldn't be more apt of a description.

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  • 05.20.2012 5:40 PM PDT

Posted by: LH Justin
As you said up to date software virtually prevent this. Not to mention modern occurrences of this are extremely obscure. You are right, it is possible to send a virus via an image, but the chances of it occurring are incredibly small do to the impracticality of such a method. Image uploaders also typically have precautions that look through the files you are uploading and I assume that Bungie would use their own uploader rather than allowing people to use off-site avatars. I was quite careless with my words, but for all intents and purposes uploading a virus bearing image to Bungie.net would be impossible, as it would be on most online sites. The person I was responding to was acting as if it would be a major problem.
Well, yes, it would be a major problem (and at the very least an extreme inconvenience to have a warning message cover the screen each time your browser loaded a certain image) considering what I described can be used to steal your details and perform actions on the site on behalf of your account. What I'm describing also isn't a virus.

Also, Photobucket is one example of an image hosting service which does not screen its images, since there are those I'm describing hosted there.

Posted by: LH Justin
And yeah, I would say it has to do with the internet considering an image would be uploaded to a server and then downloaded and cached by your browser, an application used to access the Internet.
If I host an image and a HTML document on my private server within my LAN, that is not on the Internet. I could save the same files locally to my hard drive and still be vulnerable.

Further, the Internet is a globally connected network of network infrastructure - routers, switches, etc... You use other network infrastructure to access the Internet - modem, cable, etc... What you're describing is the Web. The Web is a service that runs atop the Internet at the application layer. Browsers, generally, access the Web by communicating with HTTP (Web) servers.

Posted by: LH Justin
Also, of course the images wouldn't prevent the rest of the page from loading. You would, however, see a bunch of blanks spaces where images should be. I myself consider a page incomplete when everything on the page isn't finished loading. My apologies again for the misunderstanding of words.
Well, what do you think happens on this site when your browser has not cached an avatar of a user yet? Those "blank spaces" appear. So how is what already happens any different?


Posted by: relliK42
Well we don't want the mods to have to clean up after tons upon tons of inappropriate avatars. Plus, some people could go overboard with avatars/.gifs that, I believe, could use up a lot of memory or make some pages on where they appear slow down/laggy.
I kind of disagree. With the right restrictions, it's not as easy to post something inappropriate. Case in point: I've only had to ban maybe 3 people ever from Coup d'Bungie since it's been up (over a year).

  • 05.20.2012 6:58 PM PDT

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  • 05.20.2012 7:38 PM PDT
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  • 05.20.2012 8:24 PM PDT

Posted by: DE4THINC4RN4TE
Two words. Genetalia. EVERYWHERE.
You would do well to read dazarobbo's post about 3 posts above yours. There are several ways to prevent people from using disgusting things, even though it is extremely rare - just check any other forum that allows custom images.

As somebody already stated, only allow custom avatars once a certain trust threshold is reached, say Legendary or Mythic status. This generally will weed out the more immature kids.
Second, they could do what daz currently does for Coup 5: only allow images from whitelisted sites and have the Coup 5 registration process be overly complicated and prone to temporary failure. It really isn't hard to do, nor would it cause the site to becomes a wasteland.

  • 05.20.2012 10:26 PM PDT

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  • 05.20.2012 10:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: Alec9224

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Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

That's your reasoning behind rejecting innovation and improvement?


Yes it is, Mr. Alec! Umadbro?

And really? "Innovation and improvement?" More like "Spam, abuse, temporary blindness, and a lot of headaches" for both Bungie staff and the ninjas. They have enough headaches and hangovers trifling with their day. Srs!...

  • 05.20.2012 11:24 PM PDT

Posted by: CoNSoL Embu

Posted by: Alec9224

Posted by: CoNSoL Embu
Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

That's your reasoning behind rejecting innovation and improvement?


Yes it is, Mr. Alec! Umadbro?

And really? "Innovation and improvement?" More like "Spam, abuse, temporary blindness, and a lot of headaches" for both Bungie staff and the ninjas. They have enough headaches and hangovers trifling with their day. Srs!...
What possible kind of "spam" would it cause? Look at virtually any other forum. Each and every one allows users to upload or link their own avatars and signature images. These features are not abused in pretty much any way, and when they are, and I have yet to hear a report about multiple instances within a month's time, it is quickly reported and dealt with.

Essentially what you're saying, is that this community is so full of immature little chits that we can't be trusted to behave ourselves. It may be putting words in your mouth but it is heavily implied by your comments.

  • 05.20.2012 11:31 PM PDT

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Okay, to an extent you have a pretty decent point there with the whole "spam" thing.

Essentially what I'm saying is Yes, there is a significant number of "immature little chits" that take up a pretty sizable majority of b.net. I'm not saying it's a HUUUUUGE number, but it's somewhere in the (humor)kajillions.(/humor)

Although I do like the idea of having a custom avatar I'm thinking of all the asshats on b.net who'll in a heartbeat, seize the opportunity to abuse the hell out of the feature and ruin it for the rest of the community. Then perhaps after so much abuse the web team decides to take custom avatars off b.net completely. Ergo this is why we cannot have nice things sometimes, so to speak.

I'm not trying to offend anyone, and if I did then it's your problem, not mine.
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Posted by: CoNSoL Embu
Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

That's your reasoning behind rejecting innovation and improvement?


Yes it is, Mr. Alec! Umadbro?

And really? "Innovation and improvement?" More like "Spam, abuse, temporary blindness, and a lot of headaches" for both Bungie staff and the ninjas. They have enough headaches and hangovers trifling with their day. Srs!...
What possible kind of "spam" would it cause? Look at virtually any other forum. Each and every one allows users to upload or link their own avatars and signature images. These features are not abused in pretty much any way, and when they are, and I have yet to hear a report about multiple instances within a month's time, it is quickly reported and dealt with.

Essentially what you're saying, is that this community is so full of immature little chits that we can't be trusted to behave ourselves. It may be putting words in your mouth but it is heavily implied by your comments.

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Okay, to an extent you have a pretty decent point there with the whole "spam" thing.

Essentially what I'm saying is Yes, there is a significant number of "immature little chits" that take up a pretty sizable majority of b.net. I'm not saying it's a HUUUUUGE number, but it's somewhere in the (humor)kajillions.(/humor)

Although I do like the idea of having a custom avatar I'm thinking of all the asshats on b.net who'll in a heartbeat, seize the opportunity to abuse the hell out of the feature and ruin it for the rest of the community. Then perhaps after so much abuse the web team decides to take custom avatars off b.net completely. Ergo this is why we cannot have nice things sometimes, so to speak.

I'm not trying to offend anyone, and if I did then it's your problem, not mine.
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Posted by: Alec9224

Posted by: CoNSoL Embu
Why can't you just be happy with what you have? Seriously...

That's your reasoning behind rejecting innovation and improvement?


Yes it is, Mr. Alec! Umadbro?

And really? "Innovation and improvement?" More like "Spam, abuse, temporary blindness, and a lot of headaches" for both Bungie staff and the ninjas. They have enough headaches and hangovers trifling with their day. Srs!...
What possible kind of "spam" would it cause? Look at virtually any other forum. Each and every one allows users to upload or link their own avatars and signature images. These features are not abused in pretty much any way, and when they are, and I have yet to hear a report about multiple instances within a month's time, it is quickly reported and dealt with.

Essentially what you're saying, is that this community is so full of immature little chits that we can't be trusted to behave ourselves. It may be putting words in your mouth but it is heavily implied by your comments.

What is it about Bungie that makes everyone think it has more immature, ill-mannered people in it than any other forum? Maybe we should take away posting rights too, because they could be abused, and while we're at it, why not remove profiles from bungie.net so people don't make accounts with stupid names?

  • 05.21.2012 7:53 AM PDT

Posted by: CoNSoL Embu

Okay, to an extent you have a pretty decent point there with the whole "spam" thing.

Essentially what I'm saying is Yes, there is a significant number of "immature little chits" that take up a pretty sizable majority of b.net. I'm not saying it's a HUUUUUGE number, but it's somewhere in the (humor)kajillions.(/humor)

Although I do like the idea of having a custom avatar I'm thinking of all the asshats on b.net who'll in a heartbeat, seize the opportunity to abuse the hell out of the feature and ruin it for the rest of the community. Then perhaps after so much abuse the web team decides to take custom avatars off b.net completely. Ergo this is why we cannot have nice things sometimes, so to speak.

I'm not trying to offend anyone, and if I did then it's your problem, not mine.
There are always immature people on forum boards. The fact of this matter is, you and the web team are just using "zomg so much abuse gon' heppen" as an excuse not to add it in. Will people abuse it once it comes online? Undoubtedly. But that is only because it's been denied to regular users since the website began. There are plenty of moderators for that, and all that would be required is allowing for them to remove & hide avatars.

Yes, I know we have Coup d'Bungie. However, the original reason for its creation is because a lack of a typical feature on a forum board, and it has expanded to quite thorough customization from there.

  • 05.21.2012 8:03 AM PDT

It's mine.
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Righteo elmicker...
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I have my own avatar.

  • 05.21.2012 8:07 AM PDT

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I'm going to use Marty's reasoning and say potential headache.

  • 05.21.2012 8:22 AM PDT

Yeah, elmicker copied you.Posted by: Breadisgood91
It's mine.
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Righteo elmicker...
Posted by: Breadisgood91
I have my own avatar.


[Edited on 05.21.2012 8:24 AM PDT]

  • 05.21.2012 8:23 AM PDT


Posted by: Midnight Hawk2
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Install Coup, observe, have your question answered, turn Coup off to save your visual sanity.



And your computer. Makes my computer lag terribly bad.


Doesn't Coup affect more than just the avatar, though?

If this site let some people have custom avatars with this same layout otherwise, I don't see what the problem would be.

  • 05.21.2012 8:51 AM PDT

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I'm going to use Marty's reasoning and say potential headache.


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  • 05.21.2012 8:51 AM PDT

Roll the dice, try again.

Abuse would happen.

  • 05.21.2012 10:42 AM PDT